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FDA adds severe risk warning to bone disease drug

The bone disease drug Prolia has a new boxed warning, the FDA’s most prominent warning, because of an increased risk of severe hypocalcemia among chronic kidney disease patients. 

Takeaways from Penn Medicine's AI conference

AI will revolutionize every aspect of healthcare, including drug, medical device, and medical software regulation; clinical education and more, according to three panelists at a Jan. 12 forum hosted by Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania’s Le…

UVA Health bolsters global telehealth coverage

Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health is creating a telehealth clinic that will focus on medically underserved communities all over the world.

Independent Health CFO getting new title

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Independent Health’s president and CEO Michael Cropp, MD, will be passing his president title on to Jim Dunlop, the independent, nonprofit health system’s current executive vice president and CFO. 

States, specialties with highest demand for travel nurses

California has the highest demand for travel nurses, and med-surg was the specialty in highest demand, according to a Nomad Health report.

Penn Medicine completes first successful pig liver experiment on donor

Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania researchers completed the first successful experiment of circulating a deceased donor’s blood through a genetically engineered pig liver.

Trinity hospital's plan to cut maternity care rejected

Connecticut’s office of health strategy has rejected Johnson Memorial Hospital’s proposal to close its labor and delivery unit, arguing that it would adversely affect the less wealthy, reduce access to care and not save patients money, CT Insider repor…

Arkansas system names interim CEO

LaDonna Johnston, RN, was named interim president and CEO of Searcy, Ark.-based Unity Health.

Cancer centers' masking approaches vary in wake of viruses' resurgence

This is the first year since the COVID-19 pandemic began that hospitals must independently decide if and how to implement masking, and cancer centers across the country are taking different approaches.

Nurses at Tenet hospital vote to unionize

Nurses at Framingham (Mass.) Union Hospital have voted to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association.